OBITUARY: Ace shot-putter, television star, Olympian... and budgie breeder! To suggest Geoff Capes crammed a lot into his 75 years would be an understatement as gargantuan as the man himself

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OBITUARY: Ace shot-putter, television star, Olympian... and budgie breeder! To suggest Geoff Capes crammed a lot into his 75 years would be an understatement as gargantuan as the man himself

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Geoff Capes passed away on Wednesday. To suggest he crammed a lot into his 75 years would be an understatement as gargantuan as the man himself. From setting a national shot put record that has stood since 1980 to twice being crowned the world's strongest man, he was sufficiently accomplished long before he received a title in later life as the finest breeder of budgerigars on the planet. For those who watched sport in the Seventies and Eighties, or a prime-time broadcast of any description, Capes reached a level of fame far beyond the British track and field athletes of today.
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